obama drops. in the next two debates that president obama technically one, the feeling that opened the doors for people considering romney in a way they had never considered him fee for. nationally, this is a very close race. it is actually tide. i think there is a lot of scar tissue in the seven swing states that saw the brunt of the aim capital plant closings, layoffs, outsourcing, income tax, cayman islands, switzerland, bermuda, all of that stuff. the romney campaign made a huge error by not going in early on as soon as they nailed down the and try to tellyptio people about mitt romney. he was a blank piece of paper. instead, one of the things you have got to do is define your candidate before the other side defines them. think of the boy scouts. [laughter] [indiscernible] creating reservoir of goodwill in a teflon coating before the slime hits. the romney campaign opted not to do that. their view was any dollar spent talking about anything other than the economy was a dollar wasted. they basi